I shudder at the premonition of a Disney-produced Star Wars leaning towards more Jar Jar Binks idiocy. I'm as much of a Star Wars fan as the next person of my generation, but I could have gone my whole life without seeing that particular flick.

"If you want to be a bad a$s, then do what a bad a$s does. There's your pep talk for today. Go Run." -- Slo_Hand

I'm thinking the opposite of most people. i think this will be the best ting to happen to the Star Wars franchise. Can't get any worse than episodes 1-3.

Agreed (although I for one think Episode III is almost completely on par with the OT -- I rank it third on my list behind V and IV).

I'm not panicking here because Disney handled the Pixar acquisition so well (by basically letting Pixar be Pixar). Also, Marvel Studios is a self-contained unit within Disney (in much the same way that Lucasfilm will be), and no one is thinking Disney screwed up The Avengers. Kathleen Kennedy, the current Lucasfilm co-chair who will run the new Disney Lucasfilm, has produced "a few" big movies in her time, so I think she's up to the task.

One interesting note is that the story outlines for Episode VII, VIII, and IX are actually coming from Lucas, although he won't be writing the films himself. I saw somewhere that these will be original stories, not extended universe (EU) -- in other words, this won't be Timothy Zahn's Thrawn trilogy that recovering geeks like myself read back in the 1990s. Personally, I checked out of the Star Wars EU years ago (I'll occasionally read prequel- and original trilogy- era books since they're about characters that I care about) so I'm not at all bothered by this. Wouldn't mind seeing a few nods to the EU, but I won't be upset if there's no relation.

This will be a day long remembered....

On your deathbed, you won't wish that you'd spent more time at the office. But you will wish that you'd spent more time running. Because if you had, you wouldn't be on your deathbed.

All you doubters can leave, now. A Whedon SW film would be epic in every sense of the word.

Avengers 2 is slated for 2015. Whedon can't do 'em both.

Would also love to see Jjabrams (if you write it like that it looks like a Star Wars name) or Peter Jackson, but they're obviously busy with Star Trek and Hobbit. Not sure if Kevin Smith would be the right choice for the genre, but given his unabashed love for all things Star Wars, he would certainly treat the material with respect. Christopher Nolan could take it to the dark side.

There's also a fella by the name of Spielberg who was Lucas' first choice for Jedi, but was unable to do it at the time...

On your deathbed, you won't wish that you'd spent more time at the office. But you will wish that you'd spent more time running. Because if you had, you wouldn't be on your deathbed.